🔻Trump on the dispute with Iran: We will get whatever we want

Mr. Trump, who spoke to reporters in the White House grounds as he was leaving the White House for a trip to Florida, described Iran as “a country headed for collapse” and said: “They are also grappling with inflation and they don’t have any money.” He cited the inflation rate in Iran as “301 percent,” saying that it “is the highest inflation rate in the world.”

He once again emphasized that the United States controls the Strait of Hormuz and said: “We take out from there as much oil as we want. Our navy keeps that place closed to Iran, and everyone else is in the process of taking oil out [from the Strait of Hormuz]..”

At the same time, Mr. Trump raised the question of whether “we want to settle it once and for all, or let it gradually break down and wear out.”

The U.S. president once again stressed that control of the Strait of Hormuz is in the hands of the United States and said: “The volume of oil that passes through the Strait of Hormuz today is more than a year ago.”